Heat Wave Breaks in Southern California Cooling Moves In
A scorching four day heat spell in Southern California is easing as sea breezes push temperatures down from 103 in Los Angeles to an expected 96 tomorrow and 80 at beaches. The heat caused poultry losses around three million dollars, slowed livestock trading, damaged crops, and intensified brush fire activity with a La Habra death toll of six and San Dimas fires. Lifeguards work overtime as Labor Day beach pilgrimages loom.
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Texas
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San Diego
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San Dimas
Crippled New York search ends as Norwalk girl found
Dorothy Roe an eighteen year old polio survivor from Norwalk Connecticut missing since Thursday was located tonight in Mansfield Hall Hotel New York. She had run away from home to avoid Norwalk High School and relied on a wheelchair and crutches to get around. Her mother and police traced her to the hotel and plan to bring her home.
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New Rochelle
N.Y
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Manhattan
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New Flochelle
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Lewis
Norwalk High School
Miss Roe
Step Up In Political Action By Unions Set
Union leaders forecast a major political push in 1956 as AFL president George Meany and CIO president Walter Reuther vow that merger planned for December will intensify labor activity. They cite Taft Hartley and anti union laws, asserting the united movement will be more active than the separate bodies in organizing workers.
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CIO
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Reuther
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Afl-Cio
United Auto Workers Union
Federa
Wisconsin
New Hampshire
Eight Violent Deaths Tally in North Carolina Over Labor Day
The Associated Press reports eight violent deaths across North Carolina on the first day of the Labor Day weekend. Fatalities include Nora Belle Todd in a Smithfield area crash and Willie Winston who drowned near Oxford when a pickup overturned. Additional deaths involve Glenn Benfield near Reidsville and Edwin A. Raspberry in New Bern, among others, with several injuries reported.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Nora Belle Todd
Wilmington
Smithfield
Willie Winston
Oxford
Winston
Glenn Benfield
Reidsville
Benfield
Winston-Salem
Cecil Benfield
Cecil
William R. Fowler
Greenville
S.C
Daisy Euliss
Greensboro
Stronger Measures Sought for Middle East Peace Effort
Washington reports stronger measures to end fighting in the Middle East with United Nations truce supervision expanded. Maj. Gen. Burns urged UN sanctions authority to back a real cease fire between Israel and the Arab states, amid Gaza clashes and cautious optimism from Dulles Hoover.
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Dag Hammarskjold
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Gaza Strip
Dulles
Herbert Hoover Jr
Gaza
Hoover
State Department
Ike Relaxes At Summer White House
President Eisenhower enjoys a quiet Colorado weekend with bridge and golf at Cherry Hills. He chats with Sen. H. Alexander Smith and hosts East Coast guests at the Brown Palace Hotel while plans a Labor Day National Security talk with Vice President Nixon.
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White House
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Lowry Air Force Base
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Doud
Brown Palace Hotel
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Ixon
Washington
Peron Foes Demand Public Debate Over Speech
Seven Radical deputies urged President Peron to debate the terms of his fiery speech before Congress. They called the talk unprecedented in Argentine life and said it incited violence among citizens, though the chamber showed little likelihood of backing the move.
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Plaza de Mayo
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Fighting erupts anew along Gaza border Egypt and Israel
Heavy artillery and mortar exchanges flare along the Gaza demarcation line as Egypt and Israel clash. UN truce chief Burns urges a cease fire by a 5 p.m. Sunday deadline, Israel accepts while warning of self defense. Casualties cited on both sides amid ongoing hostilities.
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Gaza
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Burns
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Khan Yunis
Prediction Of 400 Deaths For Labor Day Weekend
The piece reports 124 traffic fatalities by 9 p.m. Saturday, with 105 in highway crashes, eight drownings, and 11 other deaths as the three day Labor Day weekend begins. It notes safety officials forecast 400 highway deaths in 78 hours and cites a Warsaw Kentucky crash as stark evidence.
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View of Emmett Till at Church Draws Thousands in Chicago
Thousands of mourners and curious people lined up to view the battered body of 14 year old Emmett Till at Robert's Temple Church of God in Chicago. Sheriff Strider of Charleston Mississippi questioned the identity, while Till's family and NAACP officials defended the proceedings and urged unity against lynching.
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South Side
Robert's Temple Church of God
Emmett Louis Till
Charleston
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Till
National Assn
Ray Mooty
Emmet
Strider
Mississippi
Mamie Bradley
Raynor
Tallahatchie River
Greenwood
Review Set For Novak Discharge Case Faces Review
Secretary of the Army Brucker to review Ist Lt Walter K Novak 28 discharged Aug 1 for charges tied to his family. Novak from Clio Michigan stationed Redstone Arsenal Huntsville Alabama given general discharge under honorable conditions. Defense officials say review stems from Senate subcommittee protest about unfairness and focus on family IWO ties.
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Bracker
Ist
Walter K. Novak
Army
Novak
Clio
Mich
Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Ala
Senate
Defense Department
Brucker
Lon Hocker
Wilson
Four Bodies Found in Michigan Family Tragedy
Four bodies, a young mother Catherine Hagey and her three children Nora 4 Robert 2 and James 9 months, were found dead in their Arbor area car near Jackson Michigan. Authorities say carbon monoxide poisoning from a hose connected to the tailpipe caused the deaths. A note from Mrs Hagey cited wanting to be with the Lord in heaven and conditions at the home were described as unfinished with no water. The husband Russell 26 a car salesman was questioned by police.
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Mich
Arbor
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Nora
Robert
James
Charles Southworth
USAF Moves Families Into Trailer Camps in Morocco
In Rabat Morocco Sept 3 the USAF began moving airmen families into trailer camps on bases amid rising violence in French Morocco. Maj Gen Frederick E Glantzberg said by next June all but 400 families will be on bases with 100 in danger zones to relocate by Sept 15. The French deadline for self government is Sept 12 after last month’s uprising that killed over 100. No Americans have been seriously harmed so far. some attacks occurred near American sites.
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Frederick E. Glantzberg
Amer
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